Quiz about Natural Selection and Selective Breeding

Question 1

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

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Charles Darwin

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Albert Einstein

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Steven Hawking

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Isaac Newton

Question 2

Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)

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Adaptation

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Variation

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Behavior

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Environment

Question 3

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

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Natural Selection

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Evolution

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Extinction

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Artifical Selection

Question 4

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

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To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.

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To look different from other species.

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To protect itself against predators.

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To protect itself against prey.

Question 5

The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

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The inherited traits of a population.

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The acquired traits of a population.

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Hair color and eye color

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Attractive features.

Question 6

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

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Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

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Because they come from dominant alleles.

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Because they come from recessive alleles.

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Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

Question 7

Mutations are a change in what?

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DNA

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tRNA

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genotype

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phenotype

Question 8

All mutations and adaptations usually lead to what process?

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natural selection

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selective breeding

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behavioral

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genetic engineering

Question 9

Why do frogs and other organism reproduce so many eggs or offspring?

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the more offspring the more likely the offspring will survive

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so that their babies can have friends to play with

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the more offspring the less likely offspring will survive

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the more offspring the less competition

Question 10

Which organisms are most likely to survive?

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the best adapted

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the fastest

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the strongest

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the most domesticated (tamed)

Question 11

Any inherited trait that gives an organism an advantage in its environment is called ___.

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an adaptation

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a mutation

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evolution

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natural selection

Question 12

Which of the following means "genetic change over time"

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evolution

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natural selection

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speciation

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fitness

Question 13

The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

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variations.

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genes.

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traits.

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theories.

Question 14

Which organisms are most likely to survive?

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the best adapted

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the fastest

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the strongest

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the most domesticated (tamed)

Question 15

A species could go extinct if:

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the environment changes drastically and no one can adapt.

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food becomes more plentiful.

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members of the species have adaptations to enhance survival.

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there is less competition for resources.

Question 16

What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?

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Light moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population increase

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Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population increase

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Light moths--hunted easily, light moths--population increase

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Lights moths will change their color to match dark moths.

Question 17

Due to pollution, a pond becomes darker over time. Which trait variation became more common?

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dark fish

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light fish

Question 18

What process is being shown in this image?

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Natural Selection

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Variation

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Selective Breeding

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Homeostasis

Question 19

How do artificial selection and natural selection differ?

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In natural selection, the environment acts as the selecting agent.

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In artificial selection, the environment acts as the selecting agent.

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In natural selection, traits that are useful to humans are inherited.

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In natural selection, humans act as the selecting agent.

Question 20

The purpose of selective breeding is to

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create animals with desirable traits

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Get bigger animals

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get smaller animals

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create animals with bad traits

Question 21

A farmer has bred his pineapple plants from the sweetest pineapples from his last harvest to get even sweeter pineapple plants. What is this an example of?

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Selective breeding

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Natural selection

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Extinction

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Mutagenesis

Question 22

Which term refers to a farmer choosing the best corn from this year to plant next year?

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selective breeding

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natural selection

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genetic engineering

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genetic transformation

Question 23

Organisms within a population have genetic differences in their traits called.

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Variation

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Genotypes

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Natural Selection

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Heterozygous

Question 24

Where humans have bred organisms together based on traits we like.

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Artificial Selection

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Evolution

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Natural Selection

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Extinction

Natural Selection and Selective Breeding

24 questions

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

Mutations are a change in what?

All mutations and adaptations usually lead to what process?

Why do frogs and other organism reproduce so many eggs or offspring?

Which organisms are most likely to survive?

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